Photos: Training ahead of the Derbi

Here are some photos we grabbed from today’s final training session before tomorrow’s key match against Atletico de Madrid in the Bernabeu. Tomorrow we need a win, our first against Atleti of this campaign, to go through to semi-finals. Our latest victims to injury, Modric and Bale were missing from the group.

I was always interested In seeing Real play when I would come here to Spain to visit my family but football (soccer) was not yet my passion, being half-American and living in the states. Years later, after moving to Europe, I watched Florentino build the 'galacticos' squad and I was hooked. It was then when I first wanted to build a Real Madrid Website but it took a 0-5 thrashing at the hands of Barcelona to make me serious about the project years later - and here it is!